The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-08
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rs THINE HEART RIGHT?"
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES IN THE
E1OOKlYN TABERNACLE.

SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES IN THE
E7OOkLYN TABERNACLE.
Dr. TaiIaiage Makes a Spiritual Diagnosis.
Oar Nature All Atwist and AsI1ew and
Ui,jointod--The More We Think About
Heavenly Things the Better.
BROOKLYN, Dec 4.-This is sacrament
tai day in Brooklyn tabernacle. The
more than 1000 communicate members
and many strangers from all parts of the
world make il a memorable scene. New
members were received, and some of
them were baptized this morning.
The congregation, led by organ and
cUrnet, sang:
Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed church of God
De saved to sin no more.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
preached. His subject was ''Salutation
from the Chariot, and his text II Kings
X, Is: is thine heart right?'
With mettled horses at full speed, for
he was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu,
the warrior and king, returns from bat
tie. But seeing Jehonadab an acquaint-
ance, by the wayside, he shouts, ''Whoal
whoaI' to the lathered span. Then
leaning over to Jehonadab, Jehu salutes
him in the words of the teXt-words not
more appropriate for that hour and that
place than for this hour and place.
Is thine heart right? | should like to
hear of your physical health. Well N.Y.
self, like to have everybody else well;
and so ask: Is your eyesight right, your
hearing right, your nerves right, your
lungs right, your entire body right? But
] am busy today taking diagnosis of the
moro important spiritual conditions.
| should like to hear Of your financial
welfare. l want everybody to have
plenty of money, ample apparel, large
storehouse and comfortable residence.
And l might ask; Is your business right,
your income right, your worldly sur
roundings right? But what are these
financial questions compared with the
inquiry as to whetllny you haSe been
able to pay your debts TO God; as to
whether you are insured for eternity; as
to whether you are running yourself by
the long credit system of the soul? have
known men to have no more than one
loaf of bread at time, and yet to own a
government bond of heaven, worth more
than the whole material universe.
The question | ask you today is not in
regard to your habits. make no inquiry
about your integrity, or your chastity,
or your sobriety. do not mean to stand
on the outside of the gate and ring the
ben; bnt coming up the steps open the
4 a
of the soul; and with the earnestness of
n man that must give an account for
this days work, L cry ont. o man, o
woman immortal: Is thine heart right?
will not insult you by an argument
TO prove that we are by nature all wrong.
IF there be a factory explosion, and the
She smokestack be upset. and the wheels
be broken in two, and the engine un-
jointed, and the ponderous bars bC
twisted, and q man should look in ant
say that nothing was the matter, vor
would pronounce him a fool. Well, i
needs no acumen to discover that oul
nature is all atwist and askew and un
jointed. The thing doesn't work right
The biggest trouble we have in the worlC
is with our sou1s.
Men sometimes say that though thei
lives may not be Just right, their heart i
all right Impossiblel A farmer neve
puts the poorest apples on top of his bar
rel; nor does the merchant place tn
meanest goods in his show window. Th
best part of us is our outward life. / d,
not stop to discuss whether we all fell il
Adam, for we have been our own Adam
and have all eaten of the forbidden fruit
and have been turned ont OF the paradis
of holiness and peace; and though tn
flaming sword that stood at the gate t.
keep US out has changed position AM
comes behind to drive us in, we vii
not go.
The Bible account of us is not exagger
ated whenit says that we are poor ant
vretched. and miserable and blind, all
naked. Poor: the wretch that stand
shivering on our doorstep on a cold da.
is not so much in need of bread as we ar
of spiritual help. Blind: why, the mai
whose eyes perished i'll the powder blast
and who for these ten years has gon
feeling his way from street to street. i
not in such utter darkness as we. Naked
why, there is not one rag of holiness lef
TO hide the shame of our sin: Sick; why
th leprosy has eaten into the head, an'
tbe iNeart, and the hands, and the feet
and the marasmus of an everlasting vast
ing away has already seized ON some of us
R,,t the uleanest thing for man to d
is to discourse about an evil withou
pointing way 10 have 1t remedled.
speak of the thirst 9f your hot tongu
only that ] may show you the lvin
stream that drops crystalline and spark
ling from the Rock of Ages, and pours
river cf gladness at your feet. Ii L sho'
YOU the rents in your coat, it is only be
cause the door of Gods wardrobe nov
swings open, and here is a robe, whit
with the fleece of the lamb of God, an
of a cut and make that an angel wout
not be ashamed ro wear. If snatch fror
YOU the black, moldy bread that you ar
munching, it is only to give you the brea
made out of the finest wheat that grow
ON the celestial hills, and baked in til
fires of the cross. and one crumb OF Whic
would be enough to make all heaven
banquet Hear 1t. one and all, and te
It ta your friends when you go home
that tSo Lord Jesus Christ can make th
heart right
First. we need n repenting heart.
for the last ten, twenty or forty years {
life we have been going on In the wron
way, it is time that we turned aroun
and started in the opposite direction.
we offend our friends we are glad
apologize God is our best friend, an
vet how many of us haze never apol(
gized for the wrongs we have done hin
There is nothing that we so much nee
to pet rid of as sin. 1t is horrible blaC
monster. 1t polluted Eden. 1t killc
Christ 1t has blasted the world, Me
keep dogs in kennels, and rabbits in
warren, and cattle in a pen. What
man that would be who would shut thel
up in his parlor. But this foul dog
sin. and these herds of transgression, v
have entertained for many long year
our heart, which should be the cleanes